4th February, 2020, Chennai
The ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Water Fin Pvt. Ltd., Andhra Pradesh for the transfer of seabass (Lates calcarifer) seed production technology today.
Dr. K.K. Vijayan, Director, ICAR-CIBA and Shri B. Ravi Prakash, Executive Director, Water Fin Pvt. Ltd., Andhra Pradesh signed the MoU on the behalf of their respective organizations.
Dr. Vijayan emphasized on the importance of species diversification and farming of finfish species, such as, seabass in the developing the brackishwater aquaculture in the country. Citing the success story in shrimp seed production in the country, he highlighted the role of private hatcheries for commercial scale seabass seed production for meeting the increasing seed demand among the farmers. Dr. Vijayan stated that the seed production facility would be able to meet the immediate seed demand not only for the small and medium scale of aqua farmers of Andhra Pradesh, but also in other parts of the country as well. He regarded the Technology backstopping efforts by the ICAR-CIBA to bring in more candidate species for farming in brackishwater aquaculture sector as the need of the hour.
Shri Prakash expressed his gratitude to be associated with the ICAR-CIBA for the initiative.
The technology support under the MoU covers the development of land-based seabass broodstock, technical demonstration of maturation and spawning, fertilized egg transportation and incubation and technical assistance for the rearing of Asian Seabass larvae into free size.
(Source: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai)
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